My name is Philippe Lauga. I was born in 1964. I'm not a sailor but I've always been a merchant ships lover. I live in France, in Bayonne, a small merchant port on the Atlantic coast, in the south west of the country, near the spannish frontier. I'm a professor in a technical college. One of my hobbies is photographing merchant ships. I like old general cargo vessels with derricks, built in the 60's and the 70's. I especially like a russian class of general cargo ships, built between 1972 to 1984, usually called "Pioner Moskvy" class. I photograph ships in Bayonne and in Pasajes, a spanish port in the Basque coast, also in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus, this fantastic and superb strait, shiplover's paradise.

COPYRIGHT - I'm not interested in making money with the photos. You can copy the photos for a private interest. But if you want to publish them on Internet, thank you to ask me the authorization before.

You can write me at :
philippe-ships@wanadoo.fr or contact@philippe-ships.com